{"id":165,"date":"2014-12-09T21:32:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barrymannphotography.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:07:43","slug":"stormy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Stormy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening was stormy.\u00a0 Very Stormy.\u00a0 In the space of an hour\u00a0 26+mm of rain &amp; hail fell as thunder &amp; lightning crashed around the Maphutseng Valley.<\/p>\n<p>This was the best image taken during that hour during which I had the camera set up to take images every second to try and capture as much lightning as possible.\u00a0 Lots of images to delete (2000+) but I think it was worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Storm photography is not for the faint hearted, although it is a little safer when done from the covered stoep (patio), but not much when the lightning is striking the ground less than a mile away!<\/p>\n<p>Protecting the camera from driving rain is also an issue at times,.\u00a0 The Canon 5D MkIII seems reasonably weatherproof, although it did have to be rescued on this occasion when the rain started driving in from the &#8216;wrong&#8217; direction!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barrymannphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMP-20141208-_36C4008.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning strikes, Maphutseng Valley, Lesotho\" width=\"1400\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMP-20141208-_36C4008.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMP-20141208-_36C4008-795x440.jpg 795w, https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMP-20141208-_36C4008-760x420.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lightning strikes, Maphutseng Valley, Lesotho\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a9 Barry Mann Photography 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Image capture details:<\/h4>\n<p>Camera &#8211; Canon 5D MkIII with 24-105 L f4.0 lens<\/p>\n<p>Focal Length &#8211; 24mm<\/p>\n<p>Aperture &#8211; f22<\/p>\n<p>Shutter speed &#8211; 1.6sec<\/p>\n<p>ISO &#8211; 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening was stormy.\u00a0 Very Stormy.\u00a0 In the space of an hour\u00a0 26+mm of rain &amp; hail fell as thunder &amp; lightning crashed around the Maphutseng Valley. This was the best image taken during that hour during which I had the camera set up to take images every second to try and capture as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[13,55,6,9,7,8,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrymannphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}